Saskia Mitreuter

Saskia Mitreuter
  • Master of Science
  • PhD Student at Leipzig University

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Leipzig University
Current position
  • PhD Student
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October 2015 - October 2018
Leipzig University
Position
  • PhD Student

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Publications (8)
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Objective Children Born of War (CBOW) are an international and timeless phenomenon that exists in every country involved in war or armed conflict. Nevertheless, little is known on a systematic level about those children, who are typically fathered by a foreign or enemy soldier and born to a local mother. In particular, the identity issues that CBOW...
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It is estimated around 1.9 million German women were raped in the post-World War II period. Unwanted pregnancies were common and many women went on to raise these children born of sexual violence (CBSV). Now more than 70 years later, we sought to explore the perceptions of past and present relationships of CBSV with their mothers. Using a combinati...
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Identity issues are a widely reported phenomenon amongst children born of war. In this chapter, we discuss the term identity and the importance of a feeling of belonging for identity development by presenting preliminary findings from life story interviews.
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Objectives Children Born of War (CBOW) are important but largely uninvestigated populations. As a result of being fathered by a foreign soldier and born to a local mother, these children often struggle with identity issues and search for their absent fathers their whole lives. Despite CBOW being a part of every society, which has been involved in a...
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Posttraumatic growth (PTG), the positive psychological transformations that follow traumatic events, affects both direct survivors (primary PTG) and their significant others (secondary PTG). Though primary and secondary PTG have been widely investigated in the literature, their long-term trajectories decades after a traumatic event, especially as s...
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Questions of Identity in German Occupation Children
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Exploring the Concept of Identity

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